Animation News Voice actor Mel Blanc suffers a crippling auto accident. After 3 weeks in a coma, doctors bring him around by asking Hey, Bugs Bunny! Howre you feeling today?, to which Blanc replies Eh, fine, Doc! He makes a complete recovery
 Hal Seegar, an e-Fleischer employee contacts Max Fleischer about doing a new "Out Of The Inkwell" series. They produce 100 new Koko cartoons. Max was horrified when he saw them on screen, they were so bad.

Animated Movies
- 3 new animated feature films premiered this year
 101 Dalmationsa Walt Disney production
 "Alakazam The Great" a Toei Animation production
 "Of Stars and Men" a John and Faith Hubley production
Television
- 11 new television shows premiered this year
 The Yogi Bear Show Hanna Barbera
 "The Alvin Show" a Bagdasarian production
 "The Bullwinkle Show" a Jay Ward production
 "Butch and Billy and Their Bang Bang Western Movies"
 "Calvin and the Colonel" a Kayro production
 "The Dick Tracy Show" a UPA production
 "Foo Foo" a Halas and Batchelor production
 "Snip Snap" a Halas and Batchelor production
 "Tales of the Wizard of Oz" a Videocrafts International production
 "Top Cat" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Yogi Bear Show" a Hanna Barbera production

Academy Award
 "Ersatz" (The Substitute) a Zagreb film

1962World News
 The Beatles produce their own 1st album themselves after being rejected by Decca Records
 Astronaut, John Glenn the 1st man to orbit the earth
 U-2 pilot, Gary Powers traded for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel
 President Kennedy orders a ban on Cuban imports
 American satellite "Telstar" sends 1st worldwide television show
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 American satellite, "Mariner2" sends back photos of Venus

Animation News Chuck Jones contracts to do another Tom and Jerry series for MGM at $42,000.00 per cartoon. He produces 35 cartoons between 1963 and 1967.
 Bill Tytla returns to Terrytoons briefly to animate and direct on Hector Heathcoate.

Television
- 8 new television shows premiered this year
 "Beany and Cecil" produced and directed by Bob Clampett begins airing on Mattys Funnies
 "The Adventures of Lariat Sam" a CBS Terrytoons production
 "The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Jetsons" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Lippy the Lion" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Space Angel" a Cambria production
 "Touche Turtle" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Wally Gator" a Hanna Barbera production

Academy Award
 "The Hole" by Storyboard Inc.

1963World News
 1st metal tennis racquets produced
 Alcatraz prison is closed
 Astronaut Gordon Cooper circles the earth 22 times over 34 hrs
 Soviets put the 1st woman into space, Valentina Tereskova. She circles the earth 48 times over 3 days. An attempt was made to dock with another Soviet craft also in orbit
 Kennedy's speech at the Berlin Wall, "Ich bin ein Berliner"
 Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech
 Great train robbery in England. 2.8 million British Pound notes stolen - the crime has never been solved
 Nov. - President John F. Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas
 Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Jack Ruby as millions watch on T.V.
 F.B.I. determines that Oswald acted alone
 Washington - Moscow hotline is established

Animation News Warner Bros. shuts down their animation studio after 32 years.
 Friz Freleng and David H. Depatie lease the physical space at Warner Bros and begin producing their own films starting with commercials.
 Ralph Bakshi directs his first cartoon, "Diamonds in the Rough" starring Deputy Dawg.
 Osamu Tezuka's animated series "Astro Boy" debuts on NBC marking the debute of anime (Japanese Animation) in the United States.

Animated Movies
- 1 new animated feature film premiered this year
 Sword in the Stone a Walt Disney production
Television
- 9 new television shows premiered this year
 "Astro Boy" a Mushi production
 "The Funny Company" a Ken Snyder production
 "The Hector Heathcote Show" a CBS Terytoons production
 "The Jetsons" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Mighty Hercules" an Oriolo Studios production
 "The New Casper Cartoon Show" a Harvey Films production
 "Rod Rocket" a Filmation production
 "Tennissee Tuxedo and His Tales" a Leonardo TV production
 "Tin Tin" a Tele-Hatchette/Belvision production

Animation News MGM absorbs Chuck Jones' Tower 12 Productions and renames it MGM Animation/Visual Arts.
 Warner Bros. does an about face and decides to release new theatrical cartoons again. They contract Depatie-Freleng to produce the shorts with a budget of $35,000.00 each. They produce a little over 60 abysmal new cartoons over the next 5 years.

Animated Movies- 2 new animated feature films premiered this year
 Mary Poppins a Walt Disney production
 "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" a Hanna Barbera production
Specials
 "Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer" a Rankin-Bass production
Television
- 8 new television shows premiered this year
 Magilla Gorilla a Hanna Barbera production
 The Adventures of Hoppity Hooper" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Adventures of Jonny Quest" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo" a UPA production
 A False Hare Warner Bros. last Bugs Bunny theatrical short for 25 years
 "Linus the Lionhearted" an Ed Graham/Format Films production
 "Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Porky Pig Show" a Warner Bros. production

Animation News Shamus Culhane takes over as head of the Paramount studio
Comics Jack Kirby & Stan Lee create Nick Fury, Agent of Shield for marvel's Strange Tales # 135.
 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" becomes the first on many animated holiday specials based on Charles Shultz's Peanuts comic strip.
 Shel Silverstien pulishes his first children's book "The Giving Tree". It is an instant classic.
 Creepy and Eerie begins publishing by Warren Pubs. These mags re-unite the EC Comics artists.
 Jules Fieffer's book "The Great Comic Book Heros" is published by Dial Press (Crown Publishers).
 Robert Crumb publishes Fritz The Cat.

Deaths Stan Laurel, commedian
 Author, T.S. Eliot dies at age 76

Specials
 "Willy McBean and His Magic Flute" an Arthur Rankin Jr./ Videocraft production
 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
 "Christmas Lost and Found" a Clokey production
Movies Anthony Quinn stars in "Zorba The Greek"
 Julie Andrews stars in "The Sound Of Music"

Animated Movies- 2 new animated feature films premiered this year
 "The Man From Button Willow" an Eagle Film production
 "Pinocchio in Outer Space" a Swallow/Belvision production
Television
- 15 new television shows premiered this year
 "The Astronut Show" a Terrytoons production
 "The Atom Ant/Secet Squirrel Show" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Beatles" a King Features production
 "The Big World of Little Adam" a Little Adam production
 "Do Do - The Kid From Outer Space" a Halas and Batchelor production
 "The Eighth Man" a TCJ Animation Center production
 "JOT" a Southern Baptist production
 "Mighty Mr. Titan" a Mister Titan/Trans-Lux production
 "Milton the Monster" a Hal Seeger production
 "The New Three Stooges" a Cambria Studios production
 "Roger Ramjet" a Ken Snyder Production
 "Sinbad Jr., the Sailor" a Sam Singer/Hanna Barbera production
 "Storytoon Express" a Republic Pictures production
 "The Tom and Jerry Show" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Uncle Waldo" a Jay Ward production

Computers Odyssey, home video game developed by Ralph Baer of Sanders Assoc., is 1st consumer CG product
 Group 1 FAX machines (using CCITT compression)
 Lincoln Wand developed
 Plasma Panel introduced (first developed at Illinois in 1964 as part of the PLATO project)
 Studies in Perception I by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon (Bell Labs)
 MAGI founded by Phil Mittleman
 Joint Defense Department / Industry symposium on CAD/NC held in Oklahoma City
 IBM awards Artist-in-Residence to John Whitney, Sr.
 Loutrel hidden line algorithm

Animation News Steven Krantz approaches Paramount to help produce The Might Thor cartoons.
 Krantz returns to ask Paramount to help produce the Spider-man cartoons but they back away. Shamus Culhane leaves the studio to form his own production company. (Part of the production is done in Toronto, Canada which eventually opened the way for other studios as well as the opening of an animation school at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.)
 Ralph Bakshi is named Supervising Director of Terrytoons
 Ralph Bakshi leaves Terrytoons and replaces Shamus Culhane at the Paramount Cartoon Studio.

Animated Movies
- 5 new animated feature films premiered this year
 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree a Walt Disney production
 "The Daydreamer" a Joseph E. Levine/Arthur Rankin Jr. production
 "A Man Called Flintstone" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Wacky World of Mother Goose" a Videocraft International production
 "Charlie Brown's All-Stars" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production

Specials
 "Alice in Wonderland" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear" a Rankin-Bass production
 "Dr. Seuss' How The grinch Stole Christmas" a Chuck Jones production
 "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
 "The King Kong Show" a Rankin-Bass production
Television
- 20 new television shows premiered this year
 "The Beagles" a Total Television production
 "Captain Fathom" a Cambria Studios production
 "Cartoon Capers" a Thea/Telewide production
 "Cool McCool" a Cavalier?King Features production
 "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Gigantor" a TCJ Animation Center production
 "Kimba, the White Lion" a Mushi Studios production
 "The King Kong Show" a Rankin-Bass production
 "Laurel and Hardy" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Lone Ranger" a Lone Ranger production
 "Marine Boy" a Japan Telecartoons/ Seven Arts production
 "Marvel Superheroes" a Gantray-Lawrence production
 "The Mighty Heroes" a Terrytoon production
 "The New Adventures of Superman" a Filmation production
 "The Peter Potamus Show" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Prince Planet" a TCJ Animation Center production
 "The Road Runner Show" a Warner Bros. production
 "Space Ghost and Dino Boy" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Super Six" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "Zoran, Space Boy" a Global production

Animation News The Paramount Studio shuts down.
 MGM releases the last of the new Tom and Jerry cartoons and shuts down their studio
 Warner Bros. decides to reorganize their own animation studio. Depatie-Freleng are forced to move their studio.
 Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada begins its Classical Animation program, producing many of the new young key animators in the industry. This move sparks the practically non-existant industry in the Toronto area. During the late 90s, Toronto will become one of the major producers of television animation

Comics "Speed Racer" (Mach Go Go Go) the popular anime series debuts in the U.S. it will become one of the most popular animated series to come out of Japan.
 Zap Comics # 0 debuts. The series would include Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Robert Crumb's Mr. Natural, Robert William's Cootchi Cooti, Spain's Trashman, & S. Clay Wilson's Checkered Demon. The series would give a big boost to the budding Underground Comics movement.
 Ralph Bakshi directs the "Spider-man" animated series.
 Rankin & Bass debut their stop motion animated feature "Mad Monster Party". The film stars legandary horror icon Boris Karloff, and featurses the writing talents of Mad Magazine creater Harvey Kurtzman, and character designs from vetran Mad magazine & EC comics artist Jack Davis. The film becomes a cult hit and is a big influence on a Tim Burton"s "Nightmare before Christmas".

Animated Movies
- 4 new animated feature films premiered this year
 The Jungle Book a Walt Disney production
 Jack and the Beanstalk Hanna Barbera
 "Mad Monster Party" aVideocraft International production
 "The Cricket on the Hearth" a Rankin-Bass production

Specials
 "Happy Easter" a Clokey production
 "Jack and the Beanstalk" a Hanna Barbera production
Television
- 23 new television shows premiered this year
 "Abbott and Costello" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Amazing Three" a Mushi/Erika production
 "Animatoons" an Animatoons production
 "The Atom Ant Show" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Batfink" a Hal Seeger production
 "Birdman and the Galaxy Trio" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Cyborg Big "X" a Global/Transglobal production
 "The Fatastic Four" a Hanna Barbera production
 "George of the Jungle" a Jay Ward production
 "Go Go Gophers" a Total TV production
 "The Herculoids" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero" a Seven Arts production
 "Journey to the Center of the Earth" a Columbia Tristar production
 "Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor" a Hanna Barbera Production
 "Off To See the Wizard" an MGM Television production
 "Rocket Robin Hood and His Merry Spacemen" a Trilliuym/Steve Krantz production
 "Samson and Goliath" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Secret Squirrel Show" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Spider-man" a Gantray-Lawrence and Krantz production
 "The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure"
 "Super President and Spy Shadow" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "Yogi and His Friends" a Hanna Barbera production

Animation News The last Terrytoons cartoons are produced and the studio is shut down.
 Max Fleischer and his wife move to the Motion Picture Country Home in California.Comics Maurice Horn's book "A History of The American Comic Strip" is published.
 Phil Sueling, a high school English teacher sponsors The New York Comic Art Convention over the July 4th weekend at the Statler Hilton Hotel signaling the organization of comics fandom.

Specials
 "Babar, The Little Elephant" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
 "The Fabulous Shorts" a Lee Mendelson production
 "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
 "Little Drummer Boy" a Videocraft production
Television
- 9 new television shows premiered this year
 "The Adventures of Gulliver" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Aquaman" a Filmation production
 "The Batman/Superman Hour" a Filmation production
 "The Archie Show" a Filmation production
 "Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table" an Air Programs International production
 "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Fantastic Voyage" a Filmation production
 "The New Adventures of Huck Finn" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Wacky Races" a Hanna Barbera production

Animated Movies
- 1 new animated feature film premiered this year
 "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
Specials
 "Archie and His New Friends" a Filmation production
 "Frosty The Snowman" a Rankin-Bass production
 "Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert" a Filmation production
 "It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
Television
 Sesame Stree premiers on T.V.
 Smothers Bros. T.V. show is cancelled for being too controversial
 "Star Trek" is cancelled

- 15 new animated television shows premiered this year
 "The Adventures of Batman" a Filmation production
 "The Archie Comedy Hour" a Filmation production
 "The Catanooga Cats" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Dasterdly and Muttley in their Flying Machines" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Dudley DoRight Show" a Jay Ward production
 "The Hardy Boys" a Filmation production
 "Here Comes the Grump" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "Hot Wheels" a Pantomime Pictures/Ken Snyder production
 "Max the 2000 Year Old Mouse" a Krantz Animation production
 "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Pink Panther Show" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Sky Hawks" a Pantomime Pictures/Ken Snyder production
 "The Smokey Bear Show" a Rankin-Bass production
 "Taro, Giant of the Jungle" a Global production

Academy Award
 Disney's "It's Tough to be a Bird"

1970World News
 Millions of Americans march in the 1st celebration of "Earth Day"
 The Beatles break up
 Kent State shootings
 Homosexuals protest in N.Y. for gay rights

Deaths Disney artist Gustav Tenngren
 Singer, Jimi Hendrix dies at age 27 of drug overdose
 Singer, Janis Joplin dies at age 27 of drug overdose
 President of France,Charles De Gaulle dies of durg overdose (oops, sorry that's not right, it was old age)

Movies "True Grit"
 "Catch 22"
 "M*A*S*H"
 "Patton"

Animated Movies- 3 new animated feature films premiered this year
 "The Aristocats" a Walt Disney production
 "The Phantom Toll Booth" a Chuck Jones production
 "Santa and the Three Bears" an R and S Film Enterprises production
Specials Wheres Huddles Hanna Barbera
 "The Archie, Sugar Sugar, Jingle Jangle Show" a Filmation production
 "A Christmas Carol" an Air Programs International production
 "Christmas Is" a Screen Images production
 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" an Air Programs International production
 "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who" a Chuck Jones production
 "Goldilocks" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians" a Bruce Stark production

Television
- 11 new television shows premiered this year
 "Archie's Funhouse Featuring the Giant Jukebox" a Filmation production
 "The Further Adventures of Dr. Dolittle" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "The Harlem Globe Trotters" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Josie and the Pussycats" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Motor Mouse and Auto Cat" a Hanna Barbera production
 "The Pink Panther Meets the Ant and the Aardvark" a Depatie-Freleng production
 "The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad" a Rankin-Bass production
 "Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies" a Filmation production
 "The Tomfoolery's Show" a Halas and Batchelor production
 "Where's Huddles?" a Hanna Barbera production
 "Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?" a Filmation production